Battle of Moscow (film)
Battle of Moscow | |
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Mikhail Ulyanov | |
Narrated by | Vyacheslav Tikhonov |
Cinematography | Igor Chernykh, Vladimir Gusev |
Edited by | Svetlana Metelitsa |
Music by | Aleksandra Pakhmutova |
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Release date |
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Running time | 358 minutes (combined) Film I(1): 91 minutes Film I(2): 88 minutes Film II(1): 90 minutes Film II(2): 89 minutes |
Countries | Soviet Union East Germany Czechoslovakia Vietnam |
Languages | Russian, German. |
The Battle of Moscow (Russian: Битва за Москву, Bitva za Moskvu) is a 1985 Soviet two-part war film, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The films were a Soviet-East German-Czechoslovak-Vietnamese co-production directed by Yuri Ozerov who also wrote the script.[1] It was made in time for the 40th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the 20th anniversary of the proclamation of the Victory Day holiday and Moscow's declaration as a Hero City.
Plot
Film I: Aggression
Part 1
In the aftermath of the
Part 2
The Red Army tries to counter the assault with a string of hasty operations, while the
Film II: Typhoon
Part 1
The Wehrmacht enacts to
Part 2
The enemy is at the outskirts of the city, yet the traditional 7 November parade takes place as always.
Production
Battle of Moscow was director Ozerov's third film dealing with the Second World War, after the five-part Liberation and the TV mini-series Soldiers of Freedom. Ozerov was not allowed to deal with the early, dark chapters of the war in Liberation due to political pressure, and Soldiers of Freedom revolved around the battles outside the Soviet Union. For the 40th year to the victory over Germany, Ozerov intended to create a film about the first stages on the war, from the beginning of the invasion on 22 June 1941 until the Wehrmacht's defeat near Moscow.[2]
Unlike Liberation, Ozerov's most acclaimed work, Battle of Moscow was a purely historical film, with no fictional characters included in the plot. The actors selected to portray the main roles were mostly ones who already appeared as such in the director's earlier works, especially
The German-speaking actors were contacted through DEFA, while the scenes involving Richard Sorge were shot in Vietnam with the assistance of the Fafim studio.[4] Marshal Sergei Rudenko served as the chief military consultant of the movie; the battle scenes involved troops from the Red Army as extras. The filming of the open-door battle scenes took place in Czechoslovakia, but the urban combat was shot Moscow itself: buildings in the wrecked parts of the city were demolished with explosives to simulate bomber attacks.[5]
The film premiered in the
Reception
Yuri Ozerov won the Grand Prize in the 1986
Russian film critic Alexander Fedorov called the movie "a large-scale war production typical of Yuri Ozerov" which presents Stalin as a wise leader, and depicts Zhukov as a brilliant general. Fedorov also commented on the battle scenes, describing them as "impressive... involving tanks, airplanes and artillery."[8]
Cast
- Yakov Tripolski as Joseph Stalin.
- Anatoly Nikitin as Mikhail Kalinin.
- Nikolai Zasukhin as Vyacheslav Molotov.
- Vyacheslav Ezepov as Alexander Shcherbakov.
- Vladimir Troshin as Kliment Voroshilov.
- Stepan Mikoyan as Anastas Mikoyan.
- Evgeni Novikov as Nikolay Shvernik.
- Achim Petri as Adolf Hitler.
- Olegar Fedoro as People's Commisar.
- Rostislav Yankovsky as General Vasily Smirnov.
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
- Aleksandr Filippenko as General Dmitry Pavlov.
- Bruno Freindlich as Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov.
- Yury Yakovlev as General Leonid Petrovsky.
- Juozas Budraitis as Richard Sorge.
- Aleksandr Goloborodko as General Konstantin Rokossovsky.
- Vitali Rozstalnoi as Marshal Semyon Timoshenko.
- Emanuil Vitorgan as Commissar Yefim Fomin.
- Leonid Kulagin as General Maksim Purkayev.
- Lev Pregunov as General Lev Dovator.
- Gennadi Saifulin as General Dmitry Lelyushenko.
- Irina Shemliova as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
- Irina Gubanova as Zoya's mother.
- Konstantin Stepankov as General Ivan Panfilov.
- Gennadi Frolov as General Timofei Orlenko.
- Nikolai Ivanov as Colonel Victor Polosukhin.
- Victor Zozulin as General Mikhail Katukov.
- Vasily Korzun as General Dmitry Ryabyshev.
- Nikolai Kryuchkov as old man in Vyazma.
- Oleg Stefan as Lieutenant Manchich.
- Leonid Evtifiev as General Vasily Sokolovsky.
- Aleksandr Voevodin as Commissar Vasily "Diev" Kluchkov.
- Piotr Glebov as Marshal Semyon Budyonny.
- Nikolai Volkov as General Mikhail Kirponos.
- Aleksandr Martinov as General Ivan Kopetz.
- Boris Scherbakov as General Mikhail Romanov.
- Valeri Yurchenko as Commissar Nikolai Popel.
- Romualds Ancāns as Major Pyotr Gavrilov.
- Vladimir Kuznetsov as General Nikolai Vashugin.
- Boris Guasakov as General Dmitriy Ustinov.
- Yuri Gusev as General Vladimir Klimovskikh.
- Mikk Mikiver as General Ivan Konev.
- Valeri Karen as General Hovhannes Bagramyan.
- Joachim Tomaschewsky as Field Marshal Hans von Kluge.
- Erik Veldre as General Heinz Guderian.
- Gerd Michael Henneberg as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
- Ernst Heise as Field Marshal Fedor von Bock.
Soundtrack
Aleksandra Pakhmutova made the music and the movie soundtrack. The movie's theme song "You're my hope, you're my joy" was composed by her and Nikolai Dobronranov, and was sung by Lev Leshchenko.
See also
References
- ^ "Bitva za Moskvu (1985)". bt.eutorrents.com. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Юрий Николаевич Озеров. Биографическая справка | РИА Новости - события в России и мире: темы дня, фото, видео, инфографика, радио". Rian.ru. 2011-01-26. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ "Газета "Петровские ведомости"". www.p-vedomosti.ru. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "Блог Николая Семенова. Как избавиться от импотенции за 5 дней". Actorskino.ru. 2016-02-15. Archived from the original on 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ "Boj o Moskvu - Agrese". Volny.cz. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ "Boj o Moskvu (1985) - Bitva za Moskvu - Agressija, Tajfun". FDb.cz. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ "Энциклопедия отечественного кино". Russiancinema.ru. Archived from the original on 2007-09-10. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
- ^ "аХРБЮ ГЮ лНЯЙБС (1985) - Boj o Moskvu - Schlacht um Moskau - ТХКЭЛ - НАЯСФДЕМХЕ - ЯНБЕРЯЙХЕ ТХКЭЛШ - йХМН-рЕЮРП.пс". Kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
External links
- The Battle of Moscow on the IMDb.
- The Battle of Moscow Archived 2020-05-31 at the Wayback Machine on film.ru.